Bear Island knows no king but the King in the North, whose name is Stark

So over the weekend, I finally got a lot of housework done. Cleaning the toilet and mopping the floors? Not quite. More like consolidating my home servers and finally getting down to installing linux on my main machine for use as my primary OS. I first narrowed the list down…

Just a quick recap of some of today's more interesting news. Apple announced the new 3g iphone at WWDC today and kinda surprised a lot of us by confirming a brit rumor that it would sell for $200. If they can sell an upgraded version now for $200, the profit…

According to this blog source, Comcast, who has already made the news lately with their anti-P2P agenda is on the warpath again. This time, it is not just against P2P users on its network. No. This time, they've broadened their target to encompass almost all high bandwidth users. If you're…

yea, this topic has been beaten to the ground many times by a lot of bloggers. and yet i still use email every single day. if it's dying, i'll be jack kavorkian and help make it as painless and easy as possible. but what are we really replacing email with?…

And yes, I have finally gotten off my lazy butt and gotten a wii from amazon thanks to pigz and his wii alerts that gave me a five minute purchasing window. So far I have wii sports, super smash bros brawl, and super mario galaxy. I spent some time playing…

This weekend started off with Art-o-matic in DC to go see Bob spin a late night set. I got there a bit early and explored around a bit before the show started. I'll go on the record as saying that I think art-o-matic has to be a multi-day experience. There's…

I'm often surprised at how some things turn out in my life. Everything will be the same, normal routine for weeks, even months, and one day it all changes and your world is quite different than what you're used to. But enough of that mindless inspirational dribble... For Peter's birthday,…

you know what makes me a sad panda? when i look around and see the current polarization of the democratic party against itself. now, i support obama and all... but i don't think i have anything in common with the rabid obamaniacs out there now spewing their nonsensical attacks on…

we're getting lunch catered to us today and i get chicken shwarma! oh man, i can't wait! in other news, i am kicking ass in tekken tag with xiaoyu and paul, my ultimate combo force. be afraid. be very afraid.…

Well, I figure I should put my CMS on hiatus and check out some of the other flavors out there so I can get a fresh perspective on how I want to direct the project. For now, I'll be using Wordpress 2.5 which seems to be pretty nice thus…